Jake Johnson says the recording for Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse is already delivering moments big enough to rattle a theater. The actor, who voices Peter B. Parker in the Spider-Verse films, said the work on the long-awaited sequel is going great and that he has already been recording a couple of sequences he thinks will blow people away.
“It’s going great,” Johnson said while discussing Spider-Man as he promoted his new show Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed on the 2026 TV schedule. He added, “There are a couple sequences that I've already been recording [that] I think are going to blow people away,” before going a step further and saying that in a few scenes, “the theaters are gonna explode.”
Johnson’s comments matter because the wait for Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse has stretched on for years, and the cast is now recording their parts ahead of the film’s June 2027 release. That makes his remarks one of the clearest signs yet that the movie is moving through the voices-and-performance stage rather than sitting in limbo.
The new film follows Into the Spider-Verse in 2018 and Across the Spider-Verse in 2023, both of which helped turn Peter B. Parker into one of Johnson’s best-known roles. Johnson also said of the character, “Man, these are pretty good characters,” and added, “Man, I think people are gonna really love that one too,” signaling that his enthusiasm is rooted in what he has already seen in the recording booth.
The remaining question is not whether Johnson believes in the movie. It is whether Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse can turn that kind of confidence into another crowd-pleasing chapter when it reaches theaters in June 2027.
